Elongated red medium sized heritage tomato on compact indeterminate plants.
Description
Roma is one of the most common and prolofic Italian cooking tomatoes. is fleshy, sweet plum tomato with few seeds. Shorter and stockier than San Marzano, the flesh is thinner and it has a strong, sweet and more acidic taste. Ideal for cooking or canning. The indeterminate, regular-leafed plant produces a heavy mid season crop.
Needs to be staked to get the best benefit. Suitable for indoor or outdoor growing.
We’ve tried this cultivar a number of times and rarely found it very productive (like many of the Italian varieties), so we’ve been looking for alternative, cool climate, cooking tomatoes and so far have found Black Plum and Kibits Ukranian which, although not exactly the same produce a good crop.
So we’ll probably give this one a miss in the future.
Quick Facts
- Fruit Type: Standard
- Fruit Shape: Plum
- Fruit Size: Medium
- Fruit Colour: Red
- Flesh Colour: Red
- Plant Type: Indeterminate
- Seed Type: Heritage
- Leaf Type: Regular
- Time to Ripe: Mid
- Taste: Sweet (but better for cooking)
- Fruit per Truss: 8-12
- Truss Spacing: 10-15 inches
- Alternatives: Black Plum, San Marzano, Kibits Ukranian
- Our Source: T&M
Buy Your Seeds Here
Prices given are for a packet of seeds (and may be wrong) different suppliers have different numbers of seeds in a packet.
- Brown Envelope Seeds £3.00
- DT Brown £2.89
- Moles Seeds
- Nicky’s Seeds £1.15
- Johnsons Seeds £2.29
- Jungle Seeds £1.66
- Seed Parade £0.99
- Tamar Organic £1.50
- Kings Seeds £2.05
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Prices may be wrong and will be for different numbers of different sized plants.
Updated: 08/01/2024